[SOLVED] NeroLinux:- No Device Detected - error

handy · 2012-01-13 23:09:03

I set up a new Arch machine approx' 2 months ago, I noticed that NeroLinux couldn't find the optical drive, but hadn't bothered with solving the problem as I rarely ever need to burn anything these days.

Well the time has come where I do need to burn data from this machine so I need to solve this problem.

I expect that the udev changes that Linux has been/is going through are what is behind the problem.

Here are the /etc/udev/82-cdrom-rules

# permissions for SCSI CD devices
SUBSYSTEMS=="scsi", KERNEL=="s[rg][0-9]*", ATTRS{type}=="5", GROUP="optical"

My user is in both the "disk" & "optical" groups.

I don't have any lines for the optical drive in the fstab.

I use Openbox, with Tint2 & "traydevice" in combination with "udisksvm" to mount optical media & USB devices, they are called from ~/.config/openbox/.autostart like so:

# Start traydevice:
traydevice -c /usr/share/udisksvm/usisksvm.xml &


# Detection of insertion of an optical disk
	if ! pgrep -lf "udisks-daemon: polling /dev/sr0"; then
	    udisks --poll-for-media /dev/sr0
	fi

	udisksvm >/dev/null &

This doesn't mount the un-mountable blank optical media though.

Any ideas?

[edit:] When I start nero from the command line I get an error, though it really doesn't look to be anything to do with the device not found problem:

(nero:13896): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: g_object_set_valist: construct property "type" for object `NeroSplashScreen' can't be set after construction

Last edited by handy (2012-01-21 09:43:04)

handy · 2012-01-14 01:30:13

I just installed K3b to see how it went. It worked, burning 5+GB to a double layer disk with no problems at all.

So it would seem that this problem is NeroLinux 3.5.* (I don't use v4.* so I can't test it) specific.

I had problems with all of the Linux FOSS burning solutions 5 - 6 years ago, which only surfaced when I was burning 20 or more disks at a time (on more than one high spec' machine using both Pioneer & Sony burners). Nero 2.* didn't have that problem so I have been using Nero ever since. This is the first problem that it has ever given me.

At least K3b worked & I no longer need to burn such large numbers of disks.

I won't mark this thread as solved, as the problem still stands, & perhaps someone knows how to fix it (scroogle gave me no answer).

Last edited by handy (2012-01-14 01:32:10)

lagagnon · 2012-01-14 01:34:53

What does "wodim -checkdrive" tell you? Is the drive visible? If so nero should recognize it. You might want to try a much lighterweight option called "xfburn" - it never failed for me and is a piece of cake to use...

handy · 2012-01-14 02:08:16

Thanks for your reply lagagnon.

Here is the output, the system seems to have no problem identifying the drive. I can mount & read media without a problem.

handy ~  $  wodim -checkdrive
Device was not specified. Trying to find an appropriate drive...
Detected CD-R drive: /dev/cdrw
Using /dev/cdrom of unknown capabilities
Device type    : Removable CD-ROM
Version        : 5
Response Format: 2
Capabilities   : 
Vendor_info    : 'hp      '
Identification : 'DVD RW AD-7251H5'
Revision       : '1H8D'
Device seems to be: Generic mmc2 DVD-R/DVD-RW.
Using generic SCSI-3/mmc   CD-R/CD-RW driver (mmc_cdr).
Driver flags   : MMC-3 SWABAUDIO BURNFREE 
Supported modes: TAO PACKET SAO SAO/R96R RAW/R16 RAW/R96P RAW/R96R

[edit:]
I actually have xfburn installed. I had forgotten about it! Thanks for reminding me.

Last edited by handy (2012-01-14 02:12:36)

karol · 2012-01-14 06:39:22

The thing about fixing problems that started happening 2 months ago is that they may be harder to solve than fresh ones :-)
Some people experienced problems concerning Nero in late October. The solution was to manually load sg module, but I'm not sure it this has anything to do with your case.

lagagnon · 2012-01-14 16:09:57

Well as wodim is detecting a valid drive, then the fault is obviously with nero or its setup. Sorry, can't help you there...

swanson · 2012-01-14 18:42:28

For nerolinux you need

MODULES=( sg )

in rc.conf. Some updates ago the sg module wasn't auto loaded anymore and nero needs it.

handy · 2012-01-17 00:32:04

swanson wrote:

For nerolinux you need
MODULES=( sg )
in rc.conf. Some updates ago the sg module wasn't auto loaded anymore and nero needs it.

@swanson: Thanks for that, it sounds like very valuable info'.

I haven't been in a position to be able to test it, I'll edit this post & verify it is good for anyone else that stumbles across the problem in the future.

If it works for me I'll add it to the wiki.

handy · 2012-01-20 22:18:35

@Swanson: I finally got back to my Linux box & tested what you wrote re. /etc/rc.conf & the requirement for MODULES ( sg ) & it worked perfectly.

I added your post in a note at the bottom of the Nero Linux section here:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/CD … Nero_Linux

Hopefully it won't be deemed inappropriate content by those who guard the wiki?

Once again, I thank you.

[edit:] @karol: Thanks. I'm sorry for not appreciating (& therefore using) the info' in your post_5 that offered the same solution as swanson. Don't know how I missed it? I expect that it was lost on me due to the lack of details in comparison to swanson's post.

Last edited by handy (2012-04-22 21:14:15)

swanson · 2012-01-21 05:55:09

Glad it worked.!

dxxvi · 2012-03-23 02:10:46

Could anybody explain why putting sg in rc.conf works but modprobe sg doesn't?

penguin · 2012-04-05 14:37:34

Awesome. Just got Nero 4.0 working with your help handy.

Seems like the sr thingy is needed for the /dev/sr0 device.

I still had weird problems with this though, even after adding sr in MODULE. I could force it to read "disk info" but not to burn. However, choosing which burner to use explicitly in the list/drop-down menu did the trick (facepalm?).

Everything working now though, (on a laptop where the optical drive is in a docking bay).

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[SOLVED] NeroLinux:- No Device Detected - error

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